Okako Surname
Approximately 7,203 people bear this surname
Okako Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR Congo | 6,991 | 1:10,568 | 1,300 |
| Nigeria | 76 | 1:2,330,826 | 78,393 |
| Uganda | 73 | 1:534,785 | 29,774 |
| Ivory Coast | 50 | 1:461,425 | 15,070 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1:3,832,215 | 117,288 |
| Kenya | 2 | 1:23,089,950 | 83,168 |
| United States | 2 | 1:181,229,466 | 1,556,795 |
| Cameroon | 1 | 1:20,769,068 | 227,406 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| England | 1 | 1:55,718,059 | 489,080 |
| Russia | 1 | 1:144,123,056 | 881,408 |
| Tanzania | 1 | 1:52,941,613 | 123,716 |
Okako (740) may also be a first name.
Okako Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Okako Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Okako is more commonly found in The DR Congo than any other country or territory. It may also occur in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of Okako click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Okako? popularity and diffusion
The last name Okako is the 68,906th most widely held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 1,011,738 people. This surname occurs predominantly in Africa, where 99 percent of Okako reside; 97 percent reside in Central Africa and 97 percent reside in Central Bantu Africa. Okako is also the 302,485th most commonly held first name in the world It is held by 740 people.
The surname Okako is most commonly occurring in The DR Congo, where it is borne by 6,991 people, or 1 in 10,568. Excluding The DR Congo it occurs in 12 countries. It also occurs in Nigeria, where 1 percent live and Uganda, where 1 percent live.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Okako
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